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Mind Body & Soul

Mind Body & Soul is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Joss Stone, released on 15 September 2004 by S-Curve Records. The album received generally favourable reviews from music critics and earned Stone three Grammy Award nominations, including Best Pop Vocal Album.

Mind Body & Soul debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 75,000 copies sold in its first week, making Stone the youngest female singer to top the chart. It also performed strongly on international record charts, reaching number 11 on the Billboard 200 in the United States and charting within the top 10 in several countries across Europe and Oceania.

Critical reception

Panama

Panama (i/ˈpænəmɑː/PAN-ə-mah; Spanish:Panamá[panaˈma]), officially called the Republic of Panama (Spanish:República de Panamá), is a country in Central America situated between North and South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half of the country's 3.9 million people.

Panama was inhabited by several indigenous tribes prior to settlement by the Spanish in the 16th century. Panama broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined a union of Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela named the Republic of Gran Colombia. When Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada remained joined, eventually becoming the Republic of Colombia. With the backing of the United States, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903, allowing the Panama Canal to be built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914. In 1977, an agreement was signed for the total transfer of the Canal from the United States to Panama by the end of the 20th century, which culminated on 31 December 1999.

Panama hat

A Panama hat (toquilla straw hat) is a traditional brimmed straw hat of Ecuadorian origin. Traditionally, hats were made from the plaited leaves of the Carludovica palmata plant, known locally as the toquilla palm or jipijapa palm, although it is a palm-like plant rather than a true palm.

Panama hats are light-colored, lightweight, and breathable, and often worn as accessories to summer-weight suits, such as those made of linen or silk. Beginning around the turn of the 20th century, panamas began to be associated with the seaside and tropical locales.

The art of weaving the traditional Ecuadorian toquilla hat was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists on 6 December 2012. Panama hat is an Intangible Cultural Heritage, a term used to define practices, traditions, knowledge and skills communities pass down from generation to generation as part of their cultural heritage.

History

Beginning in the early to mid-1600’s hat weaving evolved as a cottage industry all along the Ecuadorian coast. Hat weaving and wearing grew steadily in Ecuador through the 17th and 18th centuries. Even then, the best quality hats were being made in what is now the province of Manabí.
Straw hats woven in Ecuador, like many other 19th and early 20th century South American goods, were shipped first to the Isthmus of Panama before sailing for their destinations in Asia, the rest of the Americas and Europe, subsequently acquiring a name that reflected their point of international sale, "Panama hats", rather than their place of domestic origin. The term was being used by at least 1834.

Panama City

Panama City (Spanish: Ciudad de Panamá) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,440,381, and is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of Panama. The city is the political and administrative center of the country, as well as a hub for international banking and commerce. It is considered a "beta-" world city, one of three Central American cities listed in this category.

Mind Body & Soul

(Intro)put it on the linelets goyea, before you can help somebodyman you gotta help yourselfit's called self-preservationgot this shit down to a science mancheck it out(Chorus)mind body and soulmind--he can control you mentallybody--he can tell you what to do physicallysoul--only god control you spirutallyso you bust guns smoke weed drink hennessymirror mirror on the walltake a look at him vividlyyou lookin at your own worst enemyput it on the line(Verse 1)when you alone, everybody talk to theyselfsometimes its the only way to get across to yourselfyou ever wanted to do somethin but thought to yourselfor didn't wanna do somethin but forcin yourselfyou ever did somethin good and been glad for yourselfor did somethin f**ked up so you mad at yourselfthought about somethin funny and laughed to yourselfor kept that to yourselfyou ever met another personwho reminded you in the past of yourselfwhy y'all so much alike you askin yourselfy'all so much alike y'all clash cause it feltlike he was tryin to be you when he act like himselfreally deep down inside you mad at yourselfpull the gun and blast at him you blast at yourselfever knew somethin was true and then nodded to yourselfcause you can't take the truth stop lyin to yourself(Chorus)(Verse 2)its like the mind fight the heartsome niggas mind so sharp, they fight what they feeland do the wise thing they so smartbut other niggas do whats in their heartreact off emotions they black out and get so darkthey hold it in and never talkbut get old and die of heart attacksthey get attacked by their own heartsome niggas get too conceited and fill theirselftry to be somethin they're not but reveal theirselfsome niggas get insecure they grill theirselfput a gun to their own head and kill theirselfyou ever found yourself lookin out for everybody elseso much that you don't look out for yourselfif you a stick up kid then 'red drug deal and blue'a rapper with a mic salesman with a shoedon't let nothin get in your way just do what you docause the only person that can stop you is you(Chorus)(Verse 3)thats why i say who am iyou say what a stupid question but who am ithink before you start talkinyou forgettin where you came fromremind yourselflife is like a dictionarydefine yourselfare you a gangstawell lets define that wordi'ma try but it takes action to describe that worda gangsta takes care of family he's never afraiddeath before disrespect a gangsta is braveare you a thugits like a gangsta but more gullymoney before bitches and honor before moneyyou a ballerthen you cop a house before a carfortune before fasion play monopoly y'allare you a rapperthen you must invent those songsthey dont gotta like youbut they gonna respect your bossi named my son papoosehe reflectin mebut he way better than meman controls his destiny